(LifeSiteNews) — HBO has released a promotional trailer for its upcoming Harry Potter TV series, and “trans” activists took it as a signal that it was once again time for their regularly scheduled temper tantrum at JK Rowling, a rich and famous authoress who has driven them wild by her refusal to grant them a single, solitary inch of territory.
Rowling has particularly infuriated trans-identifying men, who are rendered apoplectic by her insistence on referring to them as men rather than as women. Rowling herself, of course, is a woman, and that makes them even angrier. The vicious misogyny of trans-identifying men is just one of the many very male things about them, and the fact that she will not play along with their delusions has prompted very male rape threats.
“Setting aside how absurdly unnecessary a HARRY POTTER reboot is in the first place, I’d just rather we not continue to give billions to a woman who has made it her life mission to invalidate the existence of trans women & endanger our lives with her unrelentingly hateful rhetoric,” trans-identifying and entertainment journalist Zoe Rose Bryant whined when the series was first announced. “I liked HARRY POTTER when I was a kid too and then I grew up and now its creator is actively contributing to a culture that wants me dead.” This is precisely the sort of smooth lying we expect from the entertainment press.
Rowling, of course, does not want anyone dead. Her alleged crime is merely “deadnaming,” which we are collectively expected to believe is basically the same thing.
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LGBT activists are particularly bitter that they were unable to bully major actors out of participating in the franchise to begin with. LGBTQ Nation published a snarky column on John Lithgow’s decision to retain his role with the franchise after claiming that he had initially considered quitting despite his obedient (albeit mild) denunciation of Rowling’s views. LGBT activists impotently insisted that he had done his legacy irreparable damage. If their grim warnings about Rowling are any indication, this means that Lithgow will remain rich and famous for many more years to come.
“People can watch whatever they want, but Rowling is personally funding anti-trans legislation with every dollar she profits off Harry Potter,” one activist groused on X, responding to an article noting that Rowling was “so happy” with the new series. “It’s not just a stance she has; it’s her whole mission. There’s no deniability here; it’s what you’re supporting. Obviously, there’s problematic artists everywhere that people and even I enjoy, but it’s difficult to think of one that’s more harmful on the scale that Rowling is.”
Oscar-nominated actor Andrew Garfield, star of films like Silence and Hacksaw Ridge, threw in his two cents by bemoaning in an interview that the Harry Potter films are excellent: “I know it’s controversial and we shouldn’t be putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now through she that shall remain nameless.” She that remained nameless, meanwhile, noted on March 10 that “it will forever be appalling to me that a bunch of celebrities with influence over young people used their platforms to amplify unevidenced claims for the benefit of transitioning minors while smearing those urging caution as bigots.”
LGBT activist attempts to spark a boycott of the Harry Potter series seem to have failed spectacularly, with the trailer racking up more than 277 million views in the first 48 hours; the view count was promptly cited by activists as evidence that people no longer cared about their concerns. I am very much hoping that is the case. I have never read Harry Potter or seen any of the films. I am, however, a devoted reader of Rowling’s X posts – because every time trans activists go after her and fail miserably, they prove that their power is waning.
Every time they gun for Rowling and she gets stronger, their threats mean less to more people. And every time they demand that people abandon Harry Potter, the spell they have held over the culture for the last decade grows weaker.
